Return To Ways Of Original Medicare

I have been writing to your paper about getting rid of the health maintenance organizations. I gave good reasons, and it was all money.

The government should go back to the original Medicare and pay for prescriptions and let people go to whatever doctor they want to go to and get good service.

Last week, you ran an item about how Congress gave last year a multibillion-dollar package to increase services for Medicare recipients ("Report: Medicare hasn't done much with funds," Dec. 5), and it did not happen.

According to the report, only 29 percent of the money was used for the intended purpose.

So where is the other 71 percent?

We are getting ripped off by the HMOs and the president apparently has lumped this group into his favorites, the oil, gas and electric corporations that support him with money.